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but not deeply notched ; antennae slender, fulvous, with the apex 

 of each joint more or less black or with the terminal joints entirely 

 of that colour. Thorax with the anterior portion rather strongly 

 widened and the angles slightly tuberculate ; the sides only 

 moderately constricted, the constriction forms a sulcus, not a 

 cavity ; the disc with two short rows of punctures in the middle, 

 the basal sulcus deep. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra fulvous, with a 

 shallow sutural depression below the base, strongly and closely 

 punctured anteriorly, with a rather broad greenish sutural band of 

 nearly equal width and either extended to the apex or slightly 

 shorter. Beneath black ; legs fulvous, the tarsi blackish at the 

 apex of each joint, posterior femora extended to the end of the 

 elytra. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hob. Malabar coast : Mabe (M. Maindron Coll. Jacoby}. 



83. Lema trifasciata, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; the antennae, clypeus and the tarsi black. Elytra 

 flavous, the sutural and lateral margins and a narrow, longitudinal, 

 oblique stripe from the shoulders to below the middle metallic 

 blue. 



Head bituberculate at the vertex, with a deep central depression 

 anteriorly, each elevation with another very small black tubercle 

 at the top laterally ; clypeus black : eyes deeply notched ; the 

 antennae black, not extended to the middle of the elytra, the 

 basal two joints fulvous, terminal joints elongate. Thorax very 

 moderately constricted at the sides, anterior portion only slightly 

 widened, the angles rounded, lateral excavations rather narrow, 

 with the usual ridge above, basal sulcus deep, followed by a narrow 

 transverse ridge; the surface impunctate, reddish -fulvous. Scu- 

 tellum fulvous, concave. Elytra subcylindrical, slightly narrowed 

 posteriorly ; the punctures round, deep and closely placed at the 

 base ; the interstices at the same place transversely wrinkled ; a 

 very narrow sutural stripe, another stripe obliquely extended 

 from the shoulders to behind the middle and the lateral margins 

 metallic blue. Beneath and the legs fulvous, the extreme apex 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi black. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. India : Sylhet (Bowring). Type in Brit. Mus. 



There is no other similarly marked' species of Indian Lema. 

 The present species may be at once recognized by the discoidal 

 elytral stripe, halfway between the lateral and sutural margins, 

 while the structure of the vertex of the head further characterizes 

 this species of which I have seen two exactly similar specimens. 



84. Lema lycaon, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; antennae and underside fuscous. Elytra with sutural 

 margins, a humeral and apical spot greenish-black. 



